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Hello! Yes, the time has come: the Infamous demo is out! First I want to say that the response has been so unreal and the fact that people are so excited for this makes me both happy and nervous haha but I’m glad people have become invested in the characters that I love dearly!

The demo includes:

✮ PROLOGUE ✮

Audition for BOTB and attend the after-party hosted by Misfit Alley…and try not to get in trouble in the process.

Meet some new (and familiar faces) and spend the night three different ways.

Maybe have that long awaited conversation with your ex friend/partner that wants nothing to do with you :)

The prologue can be a bit NSFW-ish, if you so choose, so be wary of that!

✮ CHAPTER ONE ✮

Find your new drummer to replace Jazzy.

Kick off the tour!

⚠️ NOTE ⚠️ As there is quite a bit of variation and coding, it’s very hard for me as a one woman show to find every single error (trust me, I tried.) so for that I will be kindly outsourcing you guys as my makeshift alpha testers, if that’s alright (ha!).

If there are any errors, typos, or any passages that feel like they are out of context due to the game not reading the coding, please please let me know so I can fix it! Ideally I’d like the demo to be 100% polished before the next update!

Also, stat pages like Characters and Band Codex will be created next update so ignore that haha!

Band and character playlists will be up soon and I will share an update on that!

Also I would like to credit @magiciansvoyage for the pronoun template adapted from @hpowellsmith ! It is amazing and I’m very thankful for your generosity!

here it finally is!

DEMO (92K WORDS)

hi hi!! i hope everyone has had a wonderful last couple of days of the year. i’ve seen so much growth and love for this project over the past couple of months so as a gift to all of you, i’ve written a new year’s eve special that will release publicly january 7, 2023 (before noon EST). it is already up for those on the midnight tier on patreon and will be released sometime on sunday for the twilight tier. only those in those tiers will have access to page until the story is released for the public. 

WHAT TO EXPECT.

soft moments with each of the ros, platonic and romantic available

a chance to see what the gang is up to outside of chaotic caine business

less bickering between A and Blane than usual (you won’t believe me until you see it i’m sure)

overall tooth-rotting fluff

thank you so much for everything you’ve done for me this year. it’s unimaginable how much support this story has gotten and the positive reception it’s received. never did i ever think something like this would be possible. i hope you enjoy the short when it comes out <33

my skills include reading an entire page of an academic text without absorbing a single word

The Universe's Brightest Lights Have Some Dark Origins

Did you know some of the brightest sources of light in the sky come from black holes in the centers of galaxies? It sounds a little contradictory, but it’s true! They may not look bright to our eyes, but satellites have spotted oodles of them across the universe. 

One of those satellites is our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Fermi has found thousands of these kinds of galaxies in the 10 years it’s been operating, and there are many more out there!

Black holes are regions of space that have so much gravity that nothing - not light, not particles, nada - can escape. Most galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centers - these are black holes that are hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of our sun - but active galactic nuclei (also called “AGN” for short, or just “active galaxies”) are surrounded by gas and dust that’s constantly falling into the black hole. As the gas and dust fall, they start to spin and form a disk. Because of the friction and other forces at work, the spinning disk starts to heat up.

The disk’s heat gets emitted as light - but not just wavelengths of it that we can see with our eyes. We see light from AGN across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from the more familiar radio and optical waves through to the more exotic X-rays and gamma rays, which we need special telescopes to spot.

About one in 10 AGN beam out jets of energetic particles, which are traveling almost as fast as light. Scientists are studying these jets to try to understand how black holes - which pull everything in with their huge amounts of gravity - somehow provide the energy needed to propel the particles in these jets.

Many of the ways we tell one type of AGN from another depend on how they’re oriented from our point of view. With radio galaxies, for example, we see the jets from the side as they’re beaming vast amounts of energy into space. Then there’s blazars, which are a type of AGN that have a jet that is pointed almost directly at Earth, which makes the AGN particularly bright.  

Our Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been searching the sky for gamma ray sources for 10 years. More than half (57%) of the sources it has found have been blazars. Gamma rays are useful because they can tell us a lot about how particles accelerate and how they interact with their environment.

So why do we care about AGN? We know that some AGN formed early in the history of the universe. With their enormous power, they almost certainly affected how the universe changed over time. By discovering how AGN work, we can understand better how the universe came to be the way it is now.

Fermi’s helped us learn a lot about the gamma-ray universe over the last 10 years. Learn more about Fermi and how we’re celebrating its accomplishments all year.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com.

The Patreon demo has been updated with over 40k words.

In this new update, you can see what the ROs do in their free time. The said free time might include:

smutty poetry

prostitutes

plenty of cookies

Also, try to remain calm and stay alive.

Public update is coming on 19th of November. Thank you for your patience!

concept: a death god that is actually surprisingly supportive and on the side of the good guys, supporting actions and promoting policies that will lead to the kingdom growing and thriving instead of being destroyed, because the more the kingdom grows, the more people there are, and the more people there are the more people will eventually  die, and when you’re an immortal god of death, you know there’s no need to rush. you’ll get them all in the end

Hello readers... I'm realizing I never actually announced it so I'm just coming here to say things are on now back on track re. chapter 5 and the release is... on the horizon.

No, you don't get to know what day it is. We're going back to the ominous "soon" system, release dates be damned.

Hi! Hi!

So, the update is out. Details are on the WIP post at the COG forum.

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Knights of Evallon (WIP) [Updated 23rd July 2022]

Introduction: Hello, I am Thomas. Knights of Evallon is my first ChoiceScript game. I hope to make this a standalone game while leaving the

Thanks for the love and support!

Explore every corner of Tarragona.

You were drawn to its black walls, not by choice but obligation. Rafael hides like a needle inside the massive pile of hay that makes up the coastal city. Tension clings to each of its cobblestones, and eyes seem to watch you from every one of its corners. The ancient maps are somewhere within, you just need to follow their scent…

And try not to leave too deep a mark of your own.            

Play the Extended Demo!

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SOMEONE WILL REMEMBER US, I SAY, EVEN IN ANOTHER TIME

kelsey beachum, outer wilds // david mitchell, cloud atlas // ian dallas, what remains of edith finch // robert kurvitz, disco elysium // lin-manuel miranda, in the heights // william safire, the safire memo // kelsey beachum, outer wilds: echoes of the eye // louis l’amour, lonely on the mountain // david gregory, from generation to generation

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Image 1: A screenshot of an space traveler from the game Outer Wilds. The caption reads: "The past is past, now, but that's... you know, that's okay! It's never really gone completely. The future is always built on the past, even if we won't get to see it."

Image 2: A screenshot of text reading: "These forces that often remake time and space, that can shape and alter who we imagine ourselves to be, begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. Our lives and our choices, like quantum trajectories, are understood moment to moment. That each point of intersection, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction."

Image 3: A screenshot of a journal page from the game What Remains of Edith Finch. It reads: "This is where your story begins. I'm sorry I won't be there to see it. It's a lot to ask, but I don't want you to be sad that I'm gone. I want you to be amazed that any of us ever had a chance to be here at all."

Image 4: A screenshot of two men standing next to a run-down building from the game Disco Elysium. A text box in the center reads: "'Glory,' says the graffito, 'to the ghosts of us!'"

Image 5: A screenshot of song lyrics reading: "But who's gonna notice we're gone? / When our job's done, as the evening winds / Down to a crawl, son, can I ease my mind / When we're all done? When we've resigned / In the long run, what do we leave behind?"

Image 6: A screenshot of text reading: "In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man. Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man's search will not be denied. But these men were first, and they will remain foremost in our hearts."

Image 7: Two screenshots of an alien creature from the game Outer Wilds. The captions read, "My kind weren't always like this. We weren't always so afraid. I did what I could to set things right, yet I am still of my kind, and you know now what they did. I cannot promise our fear won't stain your mind. And so, a choice: Are you certain you want to remember me?"

Image 7: A screenshot of text reading: "There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning."

Image 8: A screenshot of text reading: "It means that we learn from the past in order to create a future. We are merely temporary characters in the huge story of life. Our loved ones teach us and set an example for us and we carry it forward as best we can."